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22 June 2012

Written By: grant on June 22, 2012 No Comment

Graphene, as we all now know, is the latest strange form of carbon to wow material scientists with its unusual properties. Well, New Scientist shows that graphene is even stranger than we thought, turning regular old electricity into ultra-focused plasmons:

When light hits some materials in just the right way, ripples of electrons called plasmons appear on the surface. These [...]

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